Friday, May 6, 2011

Current Poll: Explanation


Hehehe. I love this image.

Okay, down to business.

You might have noticed that there's a new poll in town. And this new poll is wearing naught but letters for options. But Cereal, that makes no sense! Shut up, I ain't done!

The 300-Word Story Event is rapidly approaching (this was the last one), and it will be held by yours truly. My idea this time around is to put a small restriction in place on the stories submitted to make things interesting. Small things, nothing to hamper creativity.

Thing is, Seth and I came up with five. And I can't choose. That's where you come in. This poll will decide the story restriction for the event. I have them assigned already (secretly, of course) and won't be shuffling them, so no worries. The letter that gets picked is the letter that gets picked, no matter what it is.

One hint, though: there is one option there you really don't want to choose.

That's it! Happy voting. And good luck.

106 comments:

Anonymous said...

D FOR DASH

Red Mage said...

DUN DUN DUUUUUNNN

Anonymous said...

I was thinking D for Dash to but then I thought... A for carma... come on good grades.

Zarkanorf said...

C FOR CEREAL VELOCITY

Vopogon said...

D FOR DASH GET!

Anonymous said...

D for "Don't choose this one"!

Anonymous said...

At first I thought that the letter we picked would be forbidden from use in the event! So dont pick E

Anonymous said...

E for 'Wingboner'

Calling it now.

Sethisto said...

how the hell is it so even.

pinkie pie must be around here somewhere.

Anonymous said...

Isn't this fitting? I have an AP test tomorrow. Choosing from five choices... I think this is the easiest question I have to answer.

flashfox466 said...

I hope this event is happening after finals are over... Then I'll have all the time in the world! Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

D. Shadows said...

I might join this 300 word event it intrigues me as I was a part of the last one, with my summary story and an actually story.

1.Applejack
2.Bon-bon
3.Celestia
4.Dashing through the snow on a one pony open sleigh. (I'm Darkon Shadows so of course I'm going D or was it B because I'm Bad at writing)
5.Ecuador is a nice place but I wouldn't want to live there.

Also Cereal I think Sethisto "war were declared" you when he said who can ship Trixie the faster.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/scroll-spam.html#comments

Trio Dackswell said...

Shouldn't that be Equindor Darkon dude?

fireant said...

Don't pick C.
In every test C is always the "obvious answer, when I don't know the correct answer"
So simply don't. xD

Anonymous said...

A for aneurysm because of finals! Of course.

Anonymous said...

A=turnstiles
B=chocolate pudding
C=rheumatoid arthritis
D=gundam
E=Danny Devito

D. Shadows said...

I missed an oppurtunity to PUN! Thanks for catching it loyal minion Trio, you're getting extra kipper this week.

Anonymous said...

Woo. Go letter B
I choose B because my name starts with the letter B.

Tarvoc said...

The letter C has the most votes right now. And it will turn out to refer to...

...CUPCAKES!

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Parallel Logic said...

@Sethisto
When the poll results aren't randomized and the decision being made isn't absolute (like are you a boy/girl/other would be absolute), then you will likely see a trend toward the middle/lower poll options. I did a sudo study on this on dA since they don't randomize their poll results either:
[link]

The results are pretty clear, polls should have their poll options randomized to avoid biasing the results with the geographic locations of the poll options, anything else runs the risk of biasing the results like you are seeing here.

Nomeg Stylus said...

A = awesome Regular Show reference required
B = must be written in iambic pentameter
C = can't use the word "pony"
D = The Game.
E = only allowed to use original characters

Old Kentucky Shark said...

B, for, a Bunch of Baby Ducks...send 'em to the moon. That is what we're voting on right? Wat?

Anonymous said...

A=Too Obvious
B=Second Choice is always best, unless it's not...
C=The middle one, the usual bs guess
D=Distraction
E=Random and possible doom

Thats my test taking viewpoint, so I picked B, because E stands for evil, and the others aren't much better.

Rohit Eligeti said...

Moon is sign of romance! LOL

Pacce said...

Not to be a party pooper, but I think this is kinda dumb.

B-Man said...

I chose D.

Sheer random vote.

Sethisto said...

Guys, seriously

Stop voting for D

I will never hear the end of it if that wins.

D. Shadows said...

But I like D and I don't want to change my vote.

D is for dark like my negative polarization to all the happy people here.

Andrew "TX2" Turpel said...

What you SHOULD do is logue every vote as they were submitted and submit that as a 300 word story.

I can see it now: ab cadb ebdcab dbecbd ebcd ba bdcb ebd bacbd ebd bce bebadb debdcb ab dbedb cbad bebcdb eb abc dbebd baab dcc ebeb acba aeaec dcb db

Now that is a page turner

Anonymous said...

I really want to hit the unwanted one, just for the added challenge. But then again, with Seth's note above....

Wildwood Pony said...

I like living dangerously. I don't wash my salads and voted for E.

Anonymous said...

E is the loneliest answer, chosen only if the context is "all of the above." I, for one, stand by this lonely answer in hopes E is a proud answer. and if E does prove to be our final down bringing, I shall stand and say proudly "Muffins!", followed by a prompt retreat from the internet.

Wildwood Pony said...

@Sethisto
you shouldn't have said that.

Cereal Velocity said...

Ho boy.

You guys sure are adept at picking... the interesting option.

Anonymous said...

it's seth/trixie slashfic isn't it

there's nothing else that it could be

D. Shadows said...

Whatever the restriction Cereal Velocity I'm pretty sure I could write around it with loop holes and if I can't then I can still do it if it's not to taxing on the front left lobe of my cornea cortex.

Of course if the restriction is using a word like say "duodenum" I can do it. I actually have fifty, three hundred word stories centered on that and the words ponies and laxatives.

Zarkanorf said...

I went ahead and changed my vote to D, JUST BECAUSE I WAS TOLD NOT TO.

Anonymous said...

I got it. Gonna vote for the most obvious and correct answer. 42! FORTY TWO, 42!

Anonymous said...

I chose "A" because I was listening to:

ACHALKLATE SAUUWWZE

Ferankee said...

And so, Sethisto manipulated us all into picking D.

Anonymous said...

You gotta Pick E you guys. Cuase that stands for a jar of olives. And that would be interesting.

Sethisto said...

Not my fault! I wouldn't mind an event filled with D, but everyone will blame me!

fireant said...

@D. Shadows

Haha :) Yeah.
If a restriction tells you do include a character you don't like, you can kill that character within first paragraph, show, that no one cared about that character with second and go with your own story with restriction taken of the picture.

Smart bronies are smart xd

Anonymous said...

I bet the most chosen option is actually the worst one, luck being what it is and all...

Anonymous said...

C upcakes

Anonymous said...

C for Cupcakes. I wish I could change my vote.

Retl said...

I'm going to assume the rule for C is ONLY CLOPFIC ALLOWED so I'm picking that one.

Zarkanorf said...

@Sethisto
I won't blame you; your comment has been nulled.

Springtime Blues said...

It's a multi-choice question.

The answer is always C.

Polecat said...

Old Military phrase comes to mind for things like this "When in doubt, Bravo out.". Hit B.

Anonymous said...

C IS FOR CLOPFIC

PICK IT

Anonymous said...

LETS GET DRUNK!

Cottonmouth said...

@Sethisto

If it has ANYTHING to do with Trixie, it's YOUR head!

Anonymous said...

I voted D (for dash) and THEN I read this thread.

lulz seem imminent.

Anonymous said...

@ Sethisto
So, what is the answer we should choose, Seth? Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.



"Hey everypony! We should all pick 'insert letter here'"

Anonymous said...

My first choose was C, then seth said don't choose D, so now I have to choose D.

Anonymous said...

Im not going to vote D just because Seth manipulated us into doing so.

Anonymous said...

I've never written a fanfic before.
But given a mysterious restriction, I maaaaaay decide to participate.

Anonymous said...

This week's poll is brought to you by the letter...

Anonymous said...

We only made it to 4.5 million pageviews awe... I wanted to see five million for the gala. Also D!

Anonymous said...

Either we really are being warned, or we are being cleverly manipulated.

Either way, D seems like it'll be an interesting choice.

crazyredemu said...

THe answer is aways c!

Anonymous said...

I had randomly chosen D anyways. Now I'm curious to see what it turns out to be.

-Doc

Anonymous said...

i picked B

In hindsight i should have picked D

Anonymous said...

@ Anon above me

You can still change it.

Anonymous said...

C is for Cupcakes

Shidoshi said...

B for brony

I voted before reading this post.

Anonymous said...

D for "don't" which is italicized.
Now why didn't I see that

chinlamp said...

We all know that Seth manipulated us into picking D because it will have Trixie in it or something.

Which is probably also the option that Cereal Velocity said we didn't want. You know, cos we don't hear enough about Trixie here as it is /sarcasm.

You know what? I choose C.

chinlamp said...

Also, Cereal, can you tell us which option we didn't want (don't explain it if you want to use it in future, just tell us which one it was) when this vote is done please?

Anonymous said...

Dear Princess Celestia

HOW DO YOU PLAY THE KEYBOARD WITH HOOVES?

Anonymous said...

My guess is that the option 'we really don't want' is a 'no shipping fics' rule.

That would be devastating is we got that.

Anonymous said...

^ No it wouldn't. I'm perfectly fine with that.

invinible said...

How about a no friendship allowed rule?

T.O. Brony said...

C is for cupcakes, the only one for me...

Anonymous said...

if wanted the results to be random then you should have rolled a dice or someting since votes for random things tend to go towards the middle

Anonymous said...

I picked E?
Why?
Because it was under E!!!

Anonymous said...

A = anthro ponies only!

B = all entries must be submitted in binary code.

C = Clopfics only!

D = Dash must get horribly mutilated or killed.

E = All of the above


Let's do this.

Dawnlight said...

E because I like E sized boobies =3

Naxts said...

A for Applejack. Lets do this.

Trombe said...

A BUNCH OF BABY DUCKS

SEND THEM TO THE MOON

SODA MACHINE THAT DOESN'T WORK

SEND IT TO THE MOON

Anonymous said...

A=Anthros only

B: It must involve blood. In one way or another

C = Clopfics or circumcision

D = Dash must be Shipped with one or more ponies

E= ALL OF THE ABOVE

Looks like D is going to win. Pinkie Dash Everywhere.

imokwiththis.jpg

Introbulus said...

D for "I Don't know which one to vote for".

Narwhals' Bend said...

@Sethisto
I hope that means clopfic or grimdark! Or both simultaneously!

Scribus Caballus said...

What does it say about me that I voted BEFORE reading this post...? =/

Anonymous said...

GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT! IF WE CAN GET ALL THE RESULTS TO HAVE AN EQUAL NUMBER OF VOTES THEN...um...eh...i didn't think that far ahead...

Homfrog said...

@Anonymous

ALL OF THEM SIMULTANEOUSLY!!

Anonymous said...

I voted C, because it's the first letter in my name, and therefore is the most sympathetic of all the options.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the one we don't want is "all of the above"

Anonymous said...

I SEE THROUGH YOUR REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY SO I VOTED D!

HA!

Wait. Shit.

David said...

A vote for E is a vote for Everypony. How could you hate Everypony!

Anonymous said...

Where's the pic from?

Cereal Velocity said...

If you guys got all the letters to have an equal number of votes, you would all be writing very interesting stories.

Anonymous said...

I was just thinking next time you want to do something like this, use arbitrary words as placeholder items. Just pull obscure entries out of the dictionary.

Anonymous said...

I picked E because it's usually all of the above.

Gosh you guys

Anonymous said...

I voted for D before it was cool.

Anonymous said...

Please say that, regardless of which choice wins, that you will share what they all were after a winner has been decided?

Anonymous said...

Osht! C is catching up you guys.

VOTE D FOR 2011.

Anonymous said...

@Cereal Velocity
Five way tie lets go!

Narwhals' Bend said...

@Cereal Velocity
If you tell us what the five things were I'm going to write one with all five anyway.

Pinkie Pie said...

I picked 'E' for
EQUESTRIA!!!!!

Anonymous said...

B for not beating the Hammer

Anonymous said...

where do you vote on the polls (newfag)

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